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853 and that one the year 1709 in the Month of May in the River of Gambo in Geney was shipped on Board by John Snow Govern.r of the Said Place Elephants Teeth in quantity Betwixt fourteen & seventeen kendles of Choice Teeth upon his owne Account and Resque and for the same James Frisby Comander of the Shipp Young Margarett tooke them on board and tooke ^gave^ Bills of Lading for the same and was Consigned to the Said James Frisby in Maryland and he was to putt them on board of any Man of Warr and Consigne them to the Said Snows Correspondance in England which teeth went home in the South Sea Casell Mann of Warr John Roberts Comander and was Landed at Shearness near the River of Thames in England and was brought home to Perregrine Brownes house and was disposed on by the said Browne And this Deponent further saith he was surgeon on board the shipp young Margarett and kept a Journall of the Transactions in referrence to her Loading &c.a And that said Cap.t Browne required this Deponent to fetch the said Teeth from on board of said Mann of Warr And this Depon.t afterwards saw the Said Teeth Exposed to sayle by by him and knows them to have been sold by him But this Depon.t cannot Justly Remember the precise quantity And this Depon.t further saith not John Davisson All which by Virtue of the Comission which is hereunto annext & in pursuance thereof Humbly Certifye to the honble Chancell.r of Maryland as by the same Comission I am required Wittness my hand and seale this 26.th day of Aprill 1712 Amos Garrett (S) Anthony Neales Depositions about Severall Tracts of Land In pursuance to a Comission to toout of the high Court of Chancery Bearing Date the 22.d day of Feb.ry Annoq Dm 1711 to us directed to Examine and Swear Evidences touching the bounds of a Tract of Land called Gills Land & the Divideing Line of Wolliston Mann.r both lying in Charles County on the bounds of which said Gills Land and the said Divideing Line Depends the bounds of a Tract (of |
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